The discipline lives in a relatively small set of academic institutions, learned societies, and journals — most of which carry one or both of the two lineages.
Academic hubs — Israel
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Mazar lineage; the Institute of Archaeology; centuries-deep institutional memory of Jerusalem-area fieldwork.
Tel Aviv University
Institute of Archaeology. The Low Chronology school; Megiddo expedition; Finkelstein's training tree.
Bar-Ilan University
Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology. Tell es-Safi/Gath expedition; the Philistine corpus.
Hebrew Union College — Jerusalem
Nelson Glueck's institutional heir. The Skirball Museum and a long Negev tradition.
Academic hubs — India
Archaeological Survey of India
The federal archaeological body and de facto institutional spine of the South Asian field. B. B. Lal's institutional home; runs ongoing Indus and Vedic-period excavations across the country.
Deccan College, Pune
Postgraduate and Research Institute. Vasant Shinde's institutional home; deep training tree in South Asian prehistory and Harappan archaeology.
Banaras Hindu University
Department of Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology. Long-standing connection between Sanskrit philology and field archaeology.
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Centre for Historical Studies. The methodological-debate hub; produces much of the published critique that keeps the field self-correcting.
Academic hubs — North America and Europe
Johns Hopkins
Levantine field. Albright's institutional home; the founding North American base of the biblical-archaeology lineage.
Harvard
Both lineages. Semitic Museum and the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon (Stager); Department of South Asian Studies for Indology and Vedic studies.
University of Cambridge
Both lineages. Kenyon's training in stratigraphy fed the Levantine field; the Centre of South Asian Studies anchors the South Asian field.
University of Oxford
Both lineages. Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies; Oriental Institute. Companion British tradition.
École biblique et archéologique française
Levantine field. The French Dominican school in Jerusalem; de Vaux's institutional home; continental philological depth.
University of Wisconsin–Madison
South Asian field. Kenoyer's lab; the leading North American programme on Harappan archaeology.
SOAS, University of London
South Asian field. Indology, Sanskrit, and the textual-philological side of the South Asian tradition.
Institut français de Pondichéry
South Asian field. French institutional base in India; Indology and Tamil-Sanskrit philology in conversation with regional archaeology.
Societies, journals, and field schools
Israel Exploration Society
The institutional spine of the Israeli field since 1913. Publisher of Israel Exploration Journal.
American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR)
The North American learned society for the Levantine field. Publishes BASOR and Near Eastern Archaeology; runs the annual meeting where this work is debated in public.
W. F. Albright Institute
The Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Jerusalem. The American school's residential research base in the city.
Biblical Archaeology Review
The popular-press venue where contested Levantine findings are publicly argued — sometimes intemperately, often usefully — for a non-specialist readership.
Indian Archaeological Society
Publisher of Puratattva, the field journal of record for South Asian archaeology since 1967.
Indian Society for Prehistoric and Quaternary Studies
Publisher of Man and Environment; the methodological journal for paleoenvironmental and prehistoric work in South Asia.
Royal Asiatic Society
The London-based society for South Asian studies since 1823. Publisher of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society.